Which has more atoms, the stars in the universe or your eye? And what does this saying mean: There's more than what meets the eye? Are there opportunities right around you, healing, success, and clarity right in front of you--that you may be missing? And what about being fat? What's more sensual being fat or skinny? This is one of my favorite episodes...Part 1...so that means more to come....plus you got to watch the clip from the Lion King. Look Harder!

Simba and Rafiki: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7fXfCZ4sB4

Nathan Sawaya: See the Yellow story here: https://www.fastcompany.com/1682144/making-lego-into-art-nathan-sawayas-impossible-brick-sculptures#:~:text=The%20centerpiece%20of%20Nathan%20Sawaya's,the%20world%2C%E2%80%9D%20says%20Sawaya.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-cosmos-recap-20140413-story.html#:~:text=Carl%20Sagan%20famously%20observed%20that,as%20Neil%20de%20Grasse%20Tyson.

https://www.lenstore.co.uk/eyecare/101-amazing-eye-facts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_illusion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Bocelli

https://www.nytimes.com/1977/10/23/archives/when-fat-was-in-fashion-abundant-flesh-was-a-thing-of-beauty-to.html

Topics we cover: Forgiveness, hope, faith, motivation, losing weight, self-help, strategies for winning, inspiring others, being friends with anxiety and depression, strategies for success, overcoming fear, super powers, motivation, trust your gut, losing a loved one, death, real estate, health, investing, entrepreneurs, growing business, family, practices makes permanent, perfection, self-improvement, business, entrepreneurs, starting business, parenting, uplifting, spiritual, self-development, not giving up, mindfulness, meditation, Jesus, Buddha, stoic, stoicism, history, Buddhism, yoga, meditation, trusting yourself, be.…..Wreck it Ralph, Ralph Waldo Emerson, believe in yourself, Jesus, trust your gut, eyesight, Andrea bocelli, nathan sawaya, Reuben, Mona Lisa, art, perspective, perception, what you see is not always what you get.

Is it better to be child or a grown up? Do you think Tesla's cybertruck is ugly, does that even matter to Elon Musk? This episode is about being proud of who you are, what you're building, and being able to say 'I don't care if people like it'. You be you!

Keala singing with Hugh, this will stop your heart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=XLFEvHWD_NE&app=desktop

Max lucado book https://www.amazon.com/Special-Board-Book-Lucados-Wemmicks/dp/1581342195

https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/elon-musks-response-to-his-failed-cybertruck-demonstration-shows-why-preparation-is-everything.htm  l

https://www.npr.org/2019/11/22/782052992/elon-musk-unveils-teslas-cybertruck-with-a-polarizing-wedge-shape

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dita_Von_Teese#:~:text=Heather%20Ren%C3%A9e%20Sweet%20(born%20September,moniker%20%22Queen%20of%20Burlesque%22.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2019/11/22/tesla-cybertruck-is-ugly-as-sin-there-i-said-it/#69e41dac7da6

Topics we cover: Forgiveness, hope, faith, motivation, losing weight, self-help, strategies for winning, inspiring others, being friends with anxiety and depression, strategies for success, overcoming fear, super powers, motivation, trust your gut, losing a loved one, death, real estate, health, investing, entrepreneurs, growing business, family, practices makes permanent, perfection, self-improvement, business, entrepreneurs, starting business, parenting, uplifting, spiritual, self-development, not giving up, mindfulness, meditation, Jesus, Buddha, stoic, stoicism, history, Buddhism, yoga, meditation, trusting yourself, be.…..Wreck it Ralph, Ralph Waldo Emerson, believe in yourself, Jesus, Be ye like a little child, parenting, Max Lucado, Mother Teresa, Cybertruck, Elon Musk, Greatest Showman, this is me

Feeling lonely? When you are alone, how do you handle a set back? Are you alone going after a dream, building a business, a dream, a family, a project? How do you play if none is cheering for you? How can we be steady and keep the spirit of courage? No matter the score, believe in your unique skills and find the advantages in whatever experience you have...or don't have! Find advantages in inexperience.

In this unplanned bonus episode we talk about recent surprise Austrian tennis player Dominic Thiem, how he came back to win the US Open in one of the most unlikely comebacks ever. And we connect how that's just like President Teddy Roosevelt, with a little Rumi sprinkled around. Won't you join me?

Show notes:

Research links:

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8521-where-there-is-ruin-there-is-hope-for-a-treasure

https://quotefancy.com/quote/904438/Rumi-Whenever-you-are-alone-remind-yourself-that-God-has-sent-everyone-else-away-so-that

https://www.turnerstories.com/book-reviews/2019/7/14/7-lessons-on-writing-and-creativity-by-paulo-coelho

https://www.writerswrite.co.za/paulo-coelhos-10-writing-tips/

https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/09/01/seneca-on-the-shortness-of-life/#:~:text=Life%20is%20long%20enough%2C%20and,it%20were%20all%20well%20invested.&text=So%20it%20is%3A%20we%20are,know%20how%20to%20use%20it.

https://www.leadershipnow.com/leadingblog/2010/04/theodore_roosevelts_the_man_in.html

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodore-Roosevelt/The-Square-Deal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt

https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/theodore-roosevelt

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/president-william-mckinley-is-shot#:~:text=As%20a%20young%20adult%2C%20he,chair%20on%20October%2029%2C%201901.

https://theodoreroosevelt.org/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=991271&module_id=339333

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodore-Roosevelt/The-Square-Deal

https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/theodore-roosevelt/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship_in_a_Republic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhi_Tree#:~:text=Gautama%20Buddha%20attained%20enlightenment%20(bodhi,49%20days)%20under%20this%20tree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invictus

https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2013/0716/Why-did-J.K.-Rowling-write-under-a-pseudonym-Just-for-the-joy-of-it

https://www.tennis.com/pro-game/2020/09/us-open-down-two-sets-dominic-thiem-crushes-alexander-zverev-dream-achieves-own/90735/

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/9/14/21436170/us-open-dominic-thiem-comeback-alexander-zverev

Topics covered: Forgiveness, hope, faith, motivation, losing weight, self-help, strategies for winning, inspiring others, being friends with anxiety and depression, strategies for success, overcoming fear, super powers, motivation, trust your gut, losing a loved one, death, real estate, health, investing, entrepreneurs, growing business, family, practices makes permanent, perfection, self-improvement, business, entrepreneurs, starting business, parenting, uplifting, spiritual, self-development…..Man in the Arena speech, president Teddy, US Open Mens Tennis, making a comeback, not giving up, trusting yourself, advantage of inexperience, being alone, loneliness, wilderness, nature, trusting your gut

How can you bypass the  '10,000 hours rule'? What about the '100 Hour Super Power'? Which one is a better path to 'success'? 

Join me in this episode to explore the power of now, this moment, of going beyond the outer world, to your deeper inner world, to discover and actuate your essence of life. 

Show notes:

Research links:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomward/2017/08/29/the-amazing-story-of-the-making-of-rocky/#33f2ff57560b

https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/what-did-sylvester-stallone-do-before-becoming-famous-for-rocky.html/

https://stepheniemeyer.com/the-story-of-twilight-getting-published/

https://variety.com/2019/film/features/sylvester-stallone-rocky-ownership-stake-1203275639/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester_Stallone

https://quotefancy.com/quote/803882/Ernest-Hemingway-You-make-your-own-luck-Gig-You-know-what-makes-a-good-loser-Practice

https://www.insider.com/jk-rowling-harry-potter-author-biography-2017-7#she-lived-in-a-small-flat-while-going-to-cafes-to-write-harry-potter-and-the-sorcerers-stone-6

https://harrypotter.bloomsbury.com/uk/jk-rowling-biography/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twilight_Saga_(film_series)

https://www.turnerstories.com/book-reviews/2019/7/14/7-lessons-on-writing-and-creativity-by-paulo-coelho

https://www.writerswrite.co.za/paulo-coelhos-10-writing-tips/

https://www.salesforce.com/video/12789920/

https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Talk:Albert_Einstein_quote#:~:text=%22Imagination%20is%20more%20important%20than,%2C%20giving%20birth%20to%20evolution.%22

https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/09/01/seneca-on-the-shortness-of-life/#:~:text=Life%20is%20long%20enough%2C%20and,it%20were%20all%20well%20invested.&text=So%20it%20is%3A%20we%20are,know%20how%20to%20use%20it.

Topics covered: Forgiveness, hope, faith, motivation, losing weight, self-help, strategies for winning, inspiring others, being friends with anxiety and depression, strategies for success, overcoming fear, Malcolm Gladwell 10,000 hours rule, Anders Ericsson, super powers, motivation, trust your gut, losing a loved one, death, real estate, health, investing, entrepreneurs, growing business, family, practices makes permanent, perfection, self-improvement, business, facebook, money, Twlight series, Invictus poem

Have you heard of the '10,000 hours rule'? What about the '100 Hour Super Power'? Which one is a better path to 'success'? 

Show notes:

Research links:

Jim Carey speech about failing at what you don’t love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V80-gPkpH6M

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomward/2017/08/29/the-amazing-story-of-the-making-of-rocky/#33f2ff57560b

https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/what-did-sylvester-stallone-do-before-becoming-famous-for-rocky.html/

https://variety.com/2019/film/features/sylvester-stallone-rocky-ownership-stake-1203275639/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester_Stallone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwinism

Topics covered: Forgiveness, hope, faith, motivation, losing weight, self-help, strategies for winning, inspiring others, being friends with anxiety and depression, strategies for success, overcoming fear, Malcolm Gladwell 10,000 hours rule, Anders Ericsson, super powers, motivation, trust your gut, losing a loved one, death, real estate, health, investing, entrepreneurs, growing business, family, practices makes permanent, perfection, self-improvement, business, Outliers

Oh I LOVE winning the first set, but what happens when we lose the first set?? Do we still have a shot? What's our strategy at that point? No matter the odds we can come back, it's not a set back, it's a set up . . . 

Show notes:

Research links:

https://www.atptour.com/en/news/fedex-comebacks-april-2018

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tennis/2019/04/09/tara-moore-fights-back-0-6-0-5-30-40-deficit-record-one-extraordinary/#:~:text=Follow%20the%20author%20of%20this%20article&text=Tara%20Moore%2C%20the%20British,ultimately%20prevailing%20in%20three%20sets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/28323940-just-mercy-a-story-of-justice-and-redemption

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Good_Samaritan

https://www.innocenceproject.org/huwe-burtons-exoneration/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/years-wrongful-imprisonment-ricky-jackson-finally-free-180961434/

https://www.livescience.com/61354-stephen-hawking-turns-76-als-survival.html#:~:text=8)%20%E2%80%94%20an%20age%20well%20beyond,just%20two%20years%20to%20live.

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2008/04/a-matter-of-a-few-degrees?lang=eng

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Let_Me_Get_Me

https://www.atptour.com/en/news/fedex-zone-2015-52-week-after-winning-first-set

https://www.atptour.com/en/performance-zone/win-loss-index

Topics covered:

Ricky Jackson, Just Mercy, coming back from losses, hope, faith, motivation, losing weight, self-help, strategies for winning, inspiring others, being friends with anxiety and depression, jesus, everything is awesome/not awesome, lego movie, don’t waste a crises, losing a loved one, death, real estate, health, investing

What happens to your chances of winning the whole match if you win the first set, what if you lose the first set? How to not let fear back in to your match.

Show notes:   https://www.atptour.com/en/news/fedex-zone-2015-52-week-after-winning-first-set     http://www.mathistopheles.co.uk/maths/how-much-is-a-set-worth/#:~:text=In%20a%20perfectly%20balanced%20match,(68.75%25%20versus%2031.25%25).     https://www.pinnacle.com/en/betting-articles/Tennis/tennis-set-betting/M4WJWELXK8T87AYQ     https://www.atptour.com/en/performance-zone/win-loss-index     http://datagenetics.com/blog/august12018/index.html     https://www.jstor.org/stable/2681190?seq=1     https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1150649-roger-federer-5-interesting-statistics-of-his-to-take-note-of     http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.360.9702&rep=rep1&type=pdf     https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/41024787/my_thesis_11_6_final.pdf?sequence=5     http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~vecer/tennis.pdf     https://www.braingametennis.com/the-most-important-number-in-tennis/    www.Essentiallysports.com  

Rainbow are beautiful colorful and very temporary?  How is our life like a rainbow? What's the most important time of your life?

We must live not just exist. 

Do you tell yourself Once Upon a Time stories

Conflict: Why are you here? What do you want me to know?

Is all conflict bad? Is there a chance that conflict might actually be our friend, not our enemy? Can conflict be fun? How can we can handle nasty conflicts?